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There's a good point hidden in there, in the Yoda sense. Do or do not; there is no try. I.e. if you wanna join NATO, a lot more energy should be put into joinin
by vegai_ 5y ago
There's a good point hidden in there, in the Yoda sense. Do or do not; there is no try. I.e. if you wanna join NATO, a lot more energy should be put into joining NATO and far less into talking about joining NATO.
But perhaps in real, non-armchair politics, you cannot have one without the other.
- oxff 5y agoI try to observe things from "30 thousand feet", the current climate in Western countries is hysterical, emotional and it clouds a lot of things. Mostly try to keep it to Thomas Schelling's teachings when analyzing a given situation (behavior & deterrence being the important keywords).
- vegai_ 5y ago> the current climate in Western countries is hysterical, emotional and it clouds a lot of things. Sure, but in contrast, the earlier climate was complacent and submissive to all the evil things Putin did during his reign. We might be in the other end of the spectrum right now, but the other end wasn't a good position either.